JEW'S EAR
THE TREE OF DEATH. Jew’s ear. as the name of a fungus, is a corruption of Judas’ ear, given to it because the fungus referred to is often found on the elder, on which i tr e Judas is supposed to have hanged himself. It is curious that on account of this connection with Judas the fun gus should have “become *a famous medicine in quinsies. sore throats, ami strangulation ever since.’’ Why the elder should have been so! ■'■te i as a gallows for the traitor Apostle is, considering the usual size of '.he J roe, puzzling enough (says a writer m ‘‘The Chemist and Druggist’), but Sir John Mauiideville (or the romancer who wrote under that mime) dates that when he was at Jerusalcm*the very tree on which the hanging took place was still in existence near the Pool of Siloam.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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145JEW'S EAR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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